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7 DIY Body Scrub Recipes

Get Glowing Skin with Natural, At-Home Body Scrubs

To maintain beautiful, glowing skin it’s absolutely necessary to exfoliate all those icky dead cells blocking the baby soft layer of skin underneath. But boy can the body exfoliators and scrubs in the beauty aisle really put a dent in your shopping budget. Instead, try out a few of our favorite easy and effective DIY body scrub recipes. For a thoughtful and wallet-friendly gift, you can also make an extra mason jar full of your favorite scrub below for your mom or BFF.

Coffee Body Scrub

Coffee is good for more than just your morning wakeup. This scrub performs double duty by exfoliating while the caffeine in the coffee grounds may even help reduce the appearance of cellulite by plumping up your skin. If you check the labels, caffeine is actually in many of those crazy expensive cellulite creams. This, however, is a much cheaper way to discover if caffeine works as a treatment for you. No promises, but try it out.

Have you applied sunless tanner without exfoliating first? Holy oompa loompa! To correct those dreaded dark orange patches, try this sunless-tanner fixer. Two go-to remedies for removing those pesky tangerine streaks are lemon and a great scrub. Lemons contain citric acid, a natural exfoliator, and also contain elements that cause bleaching (sunless tanner included). This recipe combines both sugar scrub and lemons.

5 cups white granulated sugar2 cups olive oil2 lemons3 tbsp honey

Using a wooden spoon, mix the sugar with the olive oil. Slice lemons in half and squeeze the juice into the sugar olive oil mix. Add honey and mix just until combined. After a long soak in a warm bath, apply the scrub to trouble spots. Be careful not to scrub too hard and damage your skin, though! Rinse off. Follow up with a nice moisturizing body lotion.

P.S. Kudos to you for using a safer tanning alternative! We'll take streaks over sun damage any day.

(Recipe source: neverlandnook.com/honey-lemon-sugar-scrub)

Peppermint Sugar Scrub

Peppermint is not just for the holidays. Scrubbing down with this recipe will make you feel refreshed and invigorated--not to mention it's delightfully pink.

Slowly mix almond or coconut oil into the granulated sugar. If you feel like there doesn't seem to be enough oil, you can add more, but don’t overdo it and let the mixture get too oily. Add a few drops of peppermint oil until it reaches your desired scent. To get the pink color, add a few drops of red food coloring, or for a natural take, you can add drops of raspberry or pomegranate juice. Mix together until color is uniform throughout (don’t worry, it won’t be enough to dye your skin!).

If you’re sensitive to strongly scented products, this natural, simple sugar scrub is the way to go. The delicate scent of the vanilla extract and almond oil will hardly trigger any sensitive noses or smell-induced migraines.

Don’t be afraid to play around with the recipes and create your own signature scrub. Stick to two core ingredients (granulated sugar and olive oil) and add a few drops of your favorite essential oil and you’ve got a scrub as unique as your lovely self.

reaearch the properties if the essential oils that you will be using. Most essential oils have anti-microbal, bacterial benefits. They will also keep mold from growing. Do this to keep your product truly all natural. Preservatives are not necessary.

Thanks for sharing your recipes. :) I enjoy seeing the natural ingredients you used too. As the author of many DIY natural skin care books, I use them a lot as well. The coffee scrub looks great and I really love sugar scrubs. Thanks again for sharing!

Add some tea tree and/or lavender oil (few drops per 100ml) to your scrub and a teaspoon of turmeric powder for a super antibacterial boost (nice recipe in The Complete Acne Book). Add some Carrot seed oil juice or Carrot seed oil oil for acne scarring (there are other oils that are amazing for acne scars). Ground oatmeal is great for itching and inflamed skin - and almond meal is good for lightening skin...

Just did a mixture of grounded coffee, sugar,sea salt, honey and a few drops of coconut oil haven't applied it as yet. Plan to use that 2times a week. Also mixed grounded cinnamon powder,grounded nutmeg lime juice pinch of sea salt and hobey. After using everything that promised to clear my ance but never did. One can understand my obsession with natural home made remedies. Results are almost ridiculous they r that good.